Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: soc: ti: pruss: allow ethernet controller in ICSSG node

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 19/06/2024 13:24, Matthias Schiffer wrote:
> While the current Device Trees for TI EVMs configure the PRUSS Ethernet
> controller as a toplevel node with names like "icssg1-eth", allowing to
> make it a subnode of the ICSSG has a number of advantages:

What is ICSSG? The sram or ti,prus from the ethernet schema?

> 
> - It makes sense semantically - the Ethernet controller is running on
>   the ICSSG/PRUSS
> - Disabling or deleting the ICSSG node implicitly removes the Ethernet
>   controller node when it is a child node. This can be relevant on SoCs
>   like the AM64x which come in variants with and without ICSSG; e.g., on
>   the TQMa64xxL the ICSSG node will be disabled on variants without as a
>   bootloader fixup.
>   On Linux, this avoids leaving the Ethernet controller in deferred
>   state forever while waiting for the ICSSG to become available
>   (resulting in a warning on newer kernels)
> 
> The node name "ethernet" is chosen as it nicely matches the regular
> "ethernet@<reg>" format of many Ethernet controller nodes, and is also
> what the prueth binding example (/schemas/net/ti,icssg-prueth.yaml) uses.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <matthias.schiffer@ew.tq-group.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/ti/ti,pruss.yaml | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/ti/ti,pruss.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/ti/ti,pruss.yaml
> index c402cb2928e89..89dfcf5ce8434 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/ti/ti,pruss.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/ti/ti,pruss.yaml
> @@ -92,6 +92,13 @@ properties:
>      description: |
>        This property is as per sci-pm-domain.txt.
>  
> +  ethernet:
> +    description: |

Do not need '|' unless you need to preserve formatting.

> +      ICSSG PRUSS Ethernet. Configuration for an Ethernet controller running
> +      on the PRU-ICSS.
> +    $ref: /schemas/net/ti,icssg-prueth.yaml#
> +    type: object
> +
>  patternProperties:
>  
>    memories@[a-f0-9]+$:

You are mixing MMIO and non-MMIO nodes. That's odd or even sloppy
design. It immediately raises questions about your bindings.

Best regards,
Krzysztof